Improvement in tools for finishing the edges of soles of boots and shoes



i. W. 00 D GE. Tools for Finishing the Edges of Soles of Boats and Shoes.

Patented April 28, 1874.

No.i50 ,305.

W'inasses, JA.(.QV

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

J. TVESLEY DODGE, OF MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOOLS FOR FINISHING THE EDGES 0F SOLES OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 150,305 ,dated April 28, 187i; application filed February 20, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J OHN WESLEY DODGE, of Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Tool for Finishing the Edges of the Soles of Boots and Shoes and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

My invention relates to the construction of a tool for burnishing the edges of the soles of boots and shoes. This tool carries a rotary burnishing-wheel, to be driven by power; and said wheel is fixed on a shaft that carries a pulley, around which a belt passes to another pulley on a second or intermediate shaft, these two pulleys being at opposite ends of a tubular handle, through which passes the belt that connects the two shafts, the shafts being short shafts turning in bearings at the opposite ends of the frame or stock of which the handle forms a part. The intermediate shaft referred to carries a second pulley by a band, around which the shaft is connected. to a pulley on the driving-shaft. Said driving-shaft runs in bearings in a pivoted and weighted frame, and the belt is held taut by an adjustable connector-rod that extends from the pivoted frame to the tool, the rod being pivoted to each by a ball-and-socket joint that permits the tool to be moved freely in lateral and vertical directions. The tool hangs from the rod and the belt, and the operator, grasping the handle, presents the wheel to the shoe-edge, and moves it freely along such edge, against which he presses it, in accordance with the varying sole curvatures, laterally and vertically, tipping it also in accordance with the bevel that the sole-edge may have.

The invention consists, primarily, in the tool having the construction thus generally described.

The drawing represents a tool embodying my invention.

Figure 1 is a front view of the tool. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 shows the connection with the driving-shaft.

a denotes the burnishing-wheel, which may be of any suitable form or construction, it be- 00, and these two pulleys are connected by a belt, a, which, passing around the pulley, runs through the tubular handle. The shaft I can ries another pulley, 0, connected, bya belt, 19, with a pulley on the driving-shaft, said shaft, as before observed, being journaled in bearings in a pivoted or yielding frame, and this frame being held up normally, but being enabled to yield to the extent required to permit the tool to reach the various parts of the soleedges.

As the drawing down and letting back of the tool would create unequal strain upon the band, I connect the driving shaft frame and tool by a rod, 7, attached to the tool handle by a ball-and-socket joint, as seen at s, from which joint the rod extends horizontally, or nearly so, and then bends and rises vertically to the driving-shaft frame, to which it is connected by a similar joint, the tool and frame thus moving together without changing the strain upon the belt. To regulate this strain,

however, the rod is made in two parts, coupled so that the rod may be lengthened or shortened, as seen at 13.

To enable the tool to be tipped in the plane of the axes of the shafts c l, the belt p runs through a guide, u, that holds it up on the pulley.

In using the tool, the operator grasps the handleh firmly, placing the thumb, if need be, on a rest, 12, and, the shoe being upon a suitable jack, he readily brings the tool to any position for the proper presentation of its burnishingwheel to the edge of the shoe, moving the shoe as need be to bring. all parts of the edge to be burnished gradually to the field of action of the tool. 7

Constructed as described, the tool is conveniently and easily used; and the rapid action of the wheel, in connection with its perfect coni trol, enables the work to be very quickly performed by it.

An inferior tool may be constructed with a handle not tubular, the belt running on one of the handles and a belt may run directly from a pulley on the driving-shaft to the pulley on the burnisher -wheel shaft; but a tool constructed as shown in the drawing is every way preferable.

I claim- 1. The tool having the shaft with the burnisher-wheel connected to the shaft having the intermediatep ulleys by aband runnin g through the handle h, substantially as shown and .described.

2. The tool stock formed with the hollow handle h, and the bearings f k for the shafts e l, substantially as shown and described.

3. In combination with the toolstock and its shafts and belts, the belt-guide or loop a, substantially as shown and described.

' 4. In combination with the tool stock, the connector-rod 1', jointed to the handle or stock by the ball-and-socket joint 8, substantially as shown and described.

5. A pendent swinging toolframe, jointed to a tilting-frame by a ball-and-socket joint, or its equivalent, the combination of the two frames thus jointed giving to the tool a capability of motion in any and every direction, the pendent frame having the burnisher-wheel shaft journaled in it, and a pulley upon said shaft for connection with the pulley upon the shaft from which the frame is suspended, substantially as shown and described.

J. WESLEY nonen.

\Vitnesses FRANCIS GOULD, M. W. FRoTHINGnAM. 

